All the headlines from our Connecticut Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 31 2015 // In the last few years, Erik Lanese, athletic trainer at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, Connecticut, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of diagnosed concussions. The key word is “diagnosed.”...
Dec 29 2015 // Connecticut State Police responded to more than 460 accidents and busted 40 people for driving under the influence over the Christmas holiday weekend.Troopers say the number of accidents from Wednesday morning through...
Dec 21 2015 // Connecticut has joined the growing number of states that have banned or restricted the practice of “price optimization” in insurance pricing.Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that...
Dec 13 2015 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade is advising consumers to be wary of a scam in which a caller poses as a representative of an insurance company and informs people that their policy is being canceled for...
Dec 11 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown of Connecticut Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Smith Insurance, an independent agency based in Niantic, Connecticut. Terms of...
Dec 10 2015 // Law enforcement agencies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are working together to boost security on New York’s public transportation network during the holidays. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive...
Dec 8 2015 // Insurance swindler and former international fugitive Martin Frankel has been sentenced to six months in prison for violating the terms of his release.Prosecutors say a federal judge in New Haven, Connecticut, sentenced the...
Dec 4 2015 // Connecticut has joined the growing number of states that have banned or restricted the practice of “price optimization” in insurance pricing.Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that...
Nov 16 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in Connecticut...
Nov 10 2015 // Two days before Superstorm Sandy struck Connecticut in 2012, UConn scientists fed measurements from the storm and historical data from others into a computer model they developed and forecast where the most damage and...
Nov 6 2015 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade said Connecticut employers can expect to pay less next year for their workers’ compensation insurance as a result of the Insurance Department’s approval this...
Nov 2 2015 // The Connecticut Insurance Department sent a notice to insurance companies writing homeowners insurance in the state on Oct. 6, notifying them that they are not allowed to cancel or non-renew homeowners policies based on...
Oct 29 2015 // Smith Brothers Insurance, an independent agency based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, announced that it has acquired the assets of Bayberry Insurance in Groton, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not...
Oct 21 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, today announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in...
Oct 19 2015 // Connecticut’s Department of Insurance is playing a major role in a deal that would create the nation’s largest health insurer.Since Cigna is based in Bloomfield, Connecticut, the state insurance regulators are...
Oct 19 2015 // The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers elected Bill Henry as the group’s 2016 chairman. Henry is CEO and chairman of Dallas-based MHBT, a Marsh & McLennan Agency company.Henry succeeds Steve Brockmeyer,...
Oct 16 2015 // People’s United Bank N.A., a Bridgeport, Connecticut-based regional bank with nearly 400 retail locations in six states, announced that its subsidiary, People’s United Insurance Agency, has acquired...
Oct 15 2015 // A New York woman who sued her 12-year-old nephew for $127,000 over injuries she received when he exuberantly greeted her at his birthday party four years ago was forced to go to court over her medical bills, her lawyers...
Oct 13 2015 // The Connecticut Insurance Department sent a notice to insurers writing homeowners insurance in the state, notifying them they are not allowed to cancel or non-renew homeowners policies based on foundation...
Oct 6 2015 // CRC Insurance Services Inc., a wholesale insurance unit of BB&T Corporation’s principal subsidiary Branch Banking and Trust Company, announced an agreement to acquire Connecticut Underwriters Inc. in Middletown,...